Charts for a kitchen
A kitchen reference has to survive being read with wet hands, from a distance, in the middle of doing something else. Nothing to unfold, nothing to scroll, nothing that wants a password first.
Coffee takes the largest share — the bean, the drinks by proportion, and brew ratios by method with weight, grind and time. Then tea, in the detail it deserves: the six kinds, the individual ones, the cultivars, matcha, and the aged teas. Alongside them the food sheets — sugar in fruit, protein in foods — and the conversions a recipe from the other side of an ocean demands.
A4 for a cupboard door, A3 for a wall. Both sizes are in the same download.
CAST IRON SKILLET
seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
FIRST FINGER FOODS
the size, the softness and the shape of a piece for a baby who feeds themselves, by the NHS guidance
SUGAR IN FRUIT
grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it
HERBS AND SPICES
what pairs with what, how much to use and what swaps for what — per extension publications MF3539 (Kansas State) and FN198 (NDSU)
CULINARY KNIFE CUTS
julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale
SAFE MEAT TEMPERATURES
USDA minimums inside the cut: three numbers for all meat, the rest time, and an oven plan
NEAPOLITAN PIZZA DOUGH
four ingredients in the proportions written into an EU regulation
POUND CAKE
four equal weights — a recipe whose name is its ratio
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
THE SCOVILLE SCALE
chilli heat from the bell pepper to Pepper X: four peppers drawn to true scale, and the ladder of varieties
SOURDOUGH BREAD
the timeline, hydration and grams — per King Arthur Baking’s Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread
TABLE SERVICE
which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch
RED CABBAGE pH INDICATOR
the purple juice that changes colour: acid or base, without asking a book
PLASTIC RESIN CODES
the seven codes on the bottom of an article per ASTM D7611: which resin each number names and what it means for sorting
IMPERIAL UNITS
convert in your head · without a calculator